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[Henoch]

hi charity,

Elijah was not returned yet as well as Enoch… They will come back on earth someday as God will. you need to check out the link one more to understand more about Baptism

http://www.eotc-mkidusan.org/English/Dogma/index.htm

[Henoch]

To be baptized means, literally, to be rinsed in water. Mystery of Baptism is a Sacrament by which the Baptised is endorsed as a child of the Holy Trinity.
http://www.eotc-mkidusan.org/English/Dogma/index.htm

[Henoch]

dear WorshippingJesus,

May God open up your heart.

[Henoch]

Nick, Did you know

That there are many people today who like the King James Bible so much, that they would not use any other Bible, and they say that the 66 books in the King James Bible, are the only books that one should use? And yet, the first King James Bible, DID NOT HAVE 66 books in it. The original 1611 King James Bible, had 80 books in it. Which shows that they are not using the King James Bible, as it was first used, and treasured by Christians.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/kjv.browse.html

The canon of the Ethiopic Bible differs both in the Old and New Testament from that of any other churches.
List all books. As a whole, books written in the Geez language and on parchment are numerous. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has 46 books of the Old Testament and 35 books of the New Testament that will bring the total of canonized books of the Bible to 81.

http://www.ethiopianorthodox.org/english….oks.htm

[Henoch]

“Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.” Jer.6:16

[Henoch]

You are very right for everything you said. what is all this confusioin? if you don't know the history how do people find out the pure and undistorted teaching of our lord Jesus chirst?

[Henoch]

hi Nick

let me ask you a question. Do you really think that all christian have the same belives about our lord Jesus chirst?

[Henoch]

hi Nick Hassan & T8,

I hope you will find this info. intersting…

Who started the Orthodox Church?

The Orthodox Church was founded by our Lord Jesus Christ, when after His Ascension, He sent down upon His Apostles the Holy Spirit who proceeds from God the Father as is written in the New Testament. The Orthodox Church of today can trace its history back to the New Testament Church in unbroken continuity. The Apostles, as per our Lord's command, preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ and founded churches in Europe, Asia and Africa. Under the direction of the Apostles and their successors, whom they appointed to carry on their mission, the Orthodox Church began to thrive. At each city and town that the Apostles traveled they would appoint a bishop to continue to minister to the faithful, before leaving on their missionary journeys. As the Church grew, the bishops in turn had to appoint priests and deacons to help them with their flock.

The Orthodox Church in the First Centuries after Christ

In the early centuries of Christianity, there appeared many so-called Christian churches which espoused false teachings (contrary to the authentic tradition: “faith which was once delivered unto the saints” [Jude 1 : 3]). Thus the Christian Church had to address these heresies (false teachings) and to begin to systematically clarify the true teachings of Christ. The Church did this through councils. Just as the Apostles in the Book of Acts, Chapter 15 asked for the guidance of the Holy Spirit in addressing issues regarding the teachings of Christ, their successors-the bishops-held councils in order to decide what is true and what is false. It was within these councils that the Orthodox Church began to articulate its doctrine; always guided by the Holy Spirit, Who inspired them to seek and witness to the truth.

It was in the early centuries of the Church's existence, (while fighting to safeguard the true doctrines of Christ), that the Christian Church officially took on the name “Orthodox.” The word Orthodox literally means “straight teaching” or “straight worship,” being derived from two Greek words: orthos, “straight,” or “correct,” and doxa, “teaching” or “worship.” It serves to be distinguish what we share from the term that denotes the opposite position of “heterodox” indicating all other contrary, “sectarian or personal interpretations.”

The Spread of Orthodox Christianity

By the fourth century A.D., under the Emperor Constantine the Great, Christianity as a religion became tolerated and legal.Remember that since apostolic times the Church had been persecuted. By the fifth century, Orthodox Christianity became so widespread that it became the only religion recognized by the Roman government. The great centers of Orthodox Christianity were Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem. The bishops of these great cities and their surrounding regions governed the entire Church for the most part. For this reason, they were given honorary titles such as: Pope, Patriarch, Archbishop or Metropolitan, depending on the size of their flock or importance of their geographic or historic domain. All bishops were/are equal whether they preside over a small region or great city. No bishop may interfere within the jurisdiction of another bishop unless it is proven by a council of bishops that he has fallen into heresy.

Further Schism: Byzanytine Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism

However, as early as the fourth century A.D., there were cultural, sociological, political and linguistic differences between the Christians which eventually led to separation in the Church. The Eastern Christians spoke Greek, whereas the Western Christians spoke Latin, Syriac, Geez/Amharic, Hebraic or Armenian in other regions!

In each of the Eastern churches (i.e., Constantinople, Alexandria, Ethiopia/Abyssinia, Antioch and Jerusalem) a group of bishops elected a first among equals to chair their administrative assemblies. Each shared a common language and cultural background, the Western Church's administration was governed by a single bishop: the bishop of Rome. All these factors led to some basic theological differences between the Orthodox Church of the East and West.

By the eleventh century A.D. the differences between East and West became great enough to cause a separation within that group which had previously excluded those who refused to accept their innovations. The Eastern (Byzantine)Church became known as the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Western Church became know as the Roman Catholic Church, for it was governed and administered by the bishop or Pope of Rome. Again it must be emphasized that there were many factors besides theological ones which led to the schisms of local cells which had once constituted the one Christian Church. However, some theological issues which were promulgated by the Western Church were never and are not to this very day accepted by the Eastern (Byzantine) Church, nor the Oriental Orthodox Church such as: the infallibility of the Pope of Rome on matters of Church doctrine, the universal jurisdictional authority of the Pope of Rome, the doctrine of Purgatory, the immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary, the unauthorized addition of “and the Son” to the eighth article of the Nicene Creed, et. al.

Continuity vs Reformation

As schism which took place, surviving institutions co-existed as antagonists. Most of the players exhibited occasional episodes of cooperation, reunion, or proselytism. In the tenth century, the people of Russia and North Eastern Europe embraced the faith that they received from Constantinople (Byzantium). But by the Fifteenth century almost all Orthodox lands (Ethiopia was a conspicuous exception) fell to the Moslems (i.e., the Ottoman Turks). The Roman Catholic Church continued to grow and spread through its missionary efforts in North and South America. The Byzantine Church, due to its subjugation to the Moslem Turks, was unable to do this. This perhaps, from a theological standpoint, was a blessing in disguise; for the Orthodox Christians were quite adamant in retaining the faith, teachings and traditions of their ancestors.

This was not so in the West. The Roman Catholic Church had undergone certain theological changes due to Scholasticism, Speculation & Enlightenment, the Protestant Reformation and the Counter-Reformation which eventually led to separations within and from the Roman Catholic Church. These changes in the West, as late as the sixteenth century, gave birth to the: Lutheran, Methodist, Anglican and other Protestant churches. These “reformations” and thereby changes in church doctrine never affected the Orthodox Church; Orthodoxy maintained its unbroken historical and theological connection to the New Testament Church.

[Henoch]

You have a point there but how do you know the truth form over 25,000 different spritual belives? Everyone of them saying that there religoin is the right one. You must know the history.

[Henoch]

Did you know that Ethiopia is one of the Christian country in the world and keep it with out adding and chage it over 2000 years?  check out the following likes about THE ISSUE BETWEEN MONOPHYSITISM AND DYOPHYSITISM

http://www.ethiopianorthodox.org/english….tm#mono

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